Today's Opinions

Columnist Gerald Largen believes that America is not broke.
Has he seen the U.S. debt clock which has just surpassed $14 trillion? Our spending, especially on government programs, has got to be cut.
Largen used several illustrations to indicate that if America is so wealthy, it can afford to pay for government services and programs.
America’s wealth is in its people and private enterprise, not in government spending programs.

We were saddened by the death last month of Samuel F. Yette, a man whose influence still will be felt decades from now.
Yette, a Harriman man who was schooled at Rockwood’s famed Campbell High School for black children, left his mark as a journalist.
He covered many significant Civil Rights Era events for Newsweek magazine and also for LIFE magazine.
He lost his job at Newsweek after he wrote his plain-spoken, then-controversial book, “The Choice: Black Survival in the United States.”

Gentle readers, be not disturbed if you do not immediately recognize the name Hetty Green, for she has not been prominent in the news for more than three-quarters of a century.
But around 1900, Hetty Green was the richest woman in the entire world!
And the tabloids of the period often wrote of her on account of her miserly ways.

I am one of the women injured when a van crashed into a Kingston beauty salon on Aug. 24, 2010.
First, I want to thank God for letting me live. There were days when my family was told I might not make it through the night, but God had other plans.
I would like to thank my husband, Bob, and my sons, for taking great care of me when I got home from the hospital. I love you more than I can say.
Thanks to the classes of ’64 and ’65. Thanks for your prayers, visits and cards. Thank you so much for your gift. God bless you all.

In response to Gerald Largen’s column of Jan. 7 regarding a mandate within the Obama health care bill, I say welcome aboard. I am proud of the liberal “old curmudgeon’s” conclusion that our government forcing anyone to buy anything is unconstitutional.
However, as one of the “slow-on-the-uptake” crowd, as he put it, I think seeking legal remedy for this unconstitutional portion of the bill is exactly correct. We are fully aware of what we ask for.

By BILL WILLIAMS
The Paris Post-Intelligencer
Most people probably pay little attention to public notices in newspapers. But — like the fire department that’s out of mind until you need it — they fill an essential role in good government.